Solutions for Restoring Functional Ecosystems ~ Organics, Soil Carbon and more….
Mother Channels interviews soil scientist, Christopher Martius, (Principal Scientist Climate Change, CIFOR) on the possibility of nurturing soil microbes to sequester carbon, at COP 22, Marrakech. In destroying ecosystems, e.g. cutting down forests and managing agricultural soils unsustainably, the globe has been losing a significant quantity of soil carbon over the last 8000 years, since […]
Consumption of Meat
Spokesperson for Meat Farming – Acting on climate change is not about preventing people doing things but getting them to do things more responsibly and intelligently.
COP 21 – Will Countries Implement COP
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Will Countries Implement the Agreements
Marcus Asner – US Attorney – Prosecutor Bengis Case
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 8 – US Attorney, Marcus Asner, currently a lawyer in New York, was a federal prosecutor between 2000 to 2009 in Manhattan, and prosecuted amongst others, the James Bengis South and West coast Rock lobster and Patagonian toothfish […]
COP 20 – Iain Keith of Avaaz – Snr Campaign Director
Iain Keith, a Senior Campaign Director of Avaaz, a civic organisation that promotes global activism, speaks at COP 20, Lima, Peru on Energy -People Power pushing Positive Change. In a quoted statement: ‘2014 was a turning point year’, Iain Keith elaborates on some of the facts that support this statement, viz; People Power, Renewable Energy […]
COP 21 ANDRE LEU Regenerative Organic Hi Yield Hi Resilient Farming Systems
COP 21 PARIS. Andre Leu President of IFOAM Organics Int. interview of the benefits of organic farming with soil microbes, producing nutritional high yield, high drought resilient food crops, that additionally mitigate CO2 emissions through soil absorption. Building of healthy soils through composted organic matter and microbes.
Cancun Climate Summit 2010 – China’s Achievements in Renewable Energy
Cancun Climate Summit, Mexico, December 2010 – A Chinese Government representative discusses China’s achievements in Renewable Energy provision. They rank number one in the world in Windpower, Hydropower and Nuclear Power installations. Their capacity in Solar generation accounts for half of the installations worldwide at 800MW and their Nuclear Power plants contribute 30.97GW (both development […]
COP 21 Nature is Speaking
The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Conservation International, Natureisspeaking.org, People Need Nature, Nature doesn’t Need People
Gunther Pauli – Global Economy Local Self-Sufficiency
Dr Gunther Pauli – Global Market Economy causes massive unemployment, dying communities, excessive consumption of junk. We need to re-envision ourselves as locally self-sufficient to protect the environment and social structure
Organised Crime – Discussion
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 19 – Discussion – Global Security and Organised Crime – Inspection of Unseaworthy Vessels leads to uncovering of further crimes such as human trafficking, money laundering. Prosecution of Crimes
COP 20 Presenter on Organic virus free crop seeds
COP 20 LIMA Presenter on: Importance of organic virus free crop seeds, companion planting trees, fruit trees and food crops which create a more bio-diverse ecosystem and resilient farming base. Recommendations on best practices of seed sources and collection. Combining conservation with restoration efforts